Welcome congressman al green of texas who represents part of the houston area. Joining us to talk about the protests in the wake of the George Floyd Death and whats ahead for policing across the country. Congressman al green, thanks for being with us this morning. It is my honor to be with you this morning. I believe that we will break some ground this morning. I think that we have some legislation that we are proposing that will be for reaching. And im honored to bring this to cspan first. Tell us about that. Well, thank you. As you know, on may 27th, i called for a war on poverty excuse me, a war on racism. I mentioned poverty because quite frankly we declared a war on poverty, on drugs. We have declared wars on various things. We have never declared a war on racism. The question became, how do you do this . When president johnson declared his war on poverty, it was congress that passed the legislation that helped him to get Social Security through, medicare, medicaid, head start. Wh
Leadership. I am frustrated at a lack of urgency. I am frustrated at our inability to be heard as scientists. Those things frustrate me. ticking the physical world still is in charge. Ive spent, you know, 30 years trying to get people to understand that physics and chemistry matter, that you cant spin them. They dont negotiate. Looking back, mother earth was starting to clear her throat and make herself heard. Pthe highest temperatures since records began. And then a pandemic bringing with it the tragic loss of 300,000 lives worldwide and counting. ticking im lesley stahl. Im bill whitaker. Im anderson cooper. Im scott pelley. Those stories, tonight, on 60 minutes. ticking this portion of 60 minutes is sponsored by progressive insurance. Save when you bundle auto, home, or motorcycle insurance. Visit progressive. Com. Pelley Jerome Powell shook washington, wall street and the world this past week when he warned the pandemic crisis threatens lasting damage to american prosperity. As cha
Crude posting its longest winning streak in a year. Opec cuts may be draining the blood. And top fed officials weigh in on negative rates, saying such a move is not on the agenda for the foreseeable future. Shery lets get to a quick check of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures holding steady, after we saw the s p 500 fall on rising u. S. China tensions that we saw in the regular session. The s p 500 fell eight tense of 1 . Technology and utility also leading the losses. We have heard from china responding to act as asians from President Trump warning that responding to comments from President Trump warning that nasdaq sides biggest composite fall in more than a week. We also have some abysmal Economic Data. Millions of americans claiming jobless benefits. We are seeing wti under pressure, but still above the 33 a barrel level. This after sessions of gains. We are talking about the longest winning streak in more than a year. Haidi and really that crude story may be a bright spot as
With each other what we have to do it really carefully and with a planned strategy or were going to end up in a situation where its going to snap back on all of us and were going to be right back where we are now. Socially distancing from one another in a more extreme way so i think what really needs to happen over the next several weeks and months is that states really should be opening up slowly and considerably with very consistent metrics. I think that we have to have kind of testing everyones been speaking about and the ability to trace and isolate those that are positive in all states. Before we begin opening up and certainly before we begin having any very large crowd events. So the thing thats keeping me up at night right now is sort of the lack of a unified strategy. The way that that happening in a emslightly more piecemeal way across the country so first is that we need to have a unified plan for reopening with a little bit more specificity than what weve seen coming out of
And ive been thinking about this opening and closing as less of an open closed society and more like were a rubber band and we need to start stretching to put people back in contact but we have to do it carefully and with a planned strategy or were going to end up where its going to snap back on all of us and were going to be back where we are now social distancing from one another in a more extreme way. I think what needs to happen over the next several weeks and months is that states should be opening slowly and considerably with very consistent metrics. I think that we have to have the kind of testing that everyones thinking about and the ability to train and isolate those positive in all states before we begin opening up and certainly before we begin having any very large crowded events. So the thing thats really keeping me up right now is sort of the lack of a unified strategy the way thats happening in a slightly more piecemeal way across the country. So i think first is that we